Landy received Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award for Teaching Excellence in 1999[3] and Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2001.[4] In 2012 he was included in Princeton Review's "Best 300 Professors".[5]

How to do Things With Fictions . Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN9780195188561 . According to WorldCat, the book is held in 322 libraries [7]

The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age, ed. Joshua Landy and Michael Saler. Stanford University Press, 2009. ISBN9780804752992 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 274 libraries [8]